At the risk of appearing self-serving, you might want to look at the following articles:

Paul Finkelman, "John Bingham and the Background to the Fourteenth Amendment," 36 AKRON L. REV. 671-692 (2003).
Paul Finkelman, "'Let Justice Be Done, Though the Heavens May Fall':  The Law of Freedom," 70 CHI.-KENT L. REV. 325-68 (1994) (introduction to a two issue symposium on the "Law of Freedom" )
Paul Finkelman, "Prelude to the Fourteenth Amendment:  Black Legal Rights in the Antebellum North," 17 RUTGERS L.J. 415-82 (1986).


Scott Gerber wrote:
See also David A.J. Richards, CONSCIENCE AND THE CONSTITUTION (making the
connection between the 14th amendment and the Declaration of Independence).

SDG

At 10:58 PM 9/23/03 -0400, you wrote:
  
To the list of correctives on 14th Am history, we should add Brandwein,
    
RECONSTRUCTING RECONSTRUCTION, a rather fascinating example of how
reconstruction has been historically understood.  R.  Kennedy also has a
nice essay on this somewhere.
  
MAG

    
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